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Jeu (Le) Royal de l'Oye Renouvellé des Grecs - The Royal Goose Game, Revived from the Greeks 
Jeu de grand Plaisir & de Récréation, comme aujourd'hui les Princes & Grands Seigneurs le jouent & le pratiquent 
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primo autore: Anonimo 
secondo autore: Perdoux 
anno: 1787 
luogo: Francia-Orléans 
periodo: XVIII secolo (4°/4) 
percorso: Percorso di 63 caselle numerate 
materiale: carta (paper) (papier) 
dimensioni: 685X900 
stampa: Stampa su legno (bois gravé) (woodcut) 
luogo acquisto:  
data acquisto:  
dimensioni confezione:  
numero caselle: 63 
categoria: Oca 
tipo di gioco: Gioco Oca Classico (63 caselle) Orizzontale 
editore: A Orléans, chez PERDOUX, rue Royale 
stampatore: A Orléans, chez PERDOUX, rue Royale 
proprietario: Collezione Rothschild 
autore delle foto: Waddesdon The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust) 
numero di catalogo: 1192 
descrizione: Gioco di 63 caselle numerate, spirale, antiorario, centripeto.
REGOLE: al centro.
CASELLE: mute.

REFERENZA 1
(D'Allemagne, pag. 202): "Le Jeu Royal de L'oye, Renouvellé des Grecs, jeu de grand Plaisir & de Récréation, comme aujourd'hui les Princes & Grands Seigneurs le jouent & le pratiquent. Orléans, Perdoux (d. 1787). Bois gravé. Coins ornés d'oies et de motifs floraux."

REFERENZA 2
The full title is essentially that of the prototype: “LE JEU ROYAL DE L’OYE, RENOUVELLE' DES GRECS, Jeu de grand plaisir & de Recreation, comme aujourd’hui les Princes & Grands Seigneurs le jouent & le practiquent”. The iconography of the hazard spaces is a close, though not exact, copy of the Lyon game. Among many similarities, both show the bridge at space 6 as having to the left a tower with a dome topped by a banner and the bridge climbing sinuously to a building of similar shape; and the attitudes of the geese correspond, space by space. Though one cannot conclude that the Lyons game was the actual prototype, undoubtedly the playing spiral of the Perdoux game was copied from an earlier example – a common practice.The most obvious difference between the two games is that the Perdoux version is lavishly ornamented with flowers in each non-significant track space, and that there are C-scroll acanthus leaves in the corners. A second difference is that in the Perdoux game, the arch in the winning space has a goose where the Lyons arch has none. There is of course no playing logic in having a goose on that space, but the image is of a goose feeding her young and this may be intentional Christian symbolism recalling the pelican.
The publisher is Pierre-Fiacre Perdoux of Orléans, active 1773-1805 [British Museum biographical note]. It is known that he took over a quantity of woodblocks from the shop of shop of Jean-Baptiste Sevestre: the woodcut track is considerably older than the letterpress. Interestingly, the same track appears in le Jeu Royal de l’Oie Renouvellé des Grecs (in the INRP collection and Adrian Seville’s collection) published by (Jean-Baptiste) Letourmy of Orléans (c1755-1800), though with different letterpress text: both this and the Perdoux game have pochoir colouring, crudely applied. [For an account of the Orléans printmakers, see Martin (1928)].
(Plock, Phillippa - Seville Adrian)

REFERENZA 3
"The Royal Goose Game, Revived from the Greeks (Le Jeu Royal de L'Oye, Renouvellé des Grecs)", c. 1787. Published by Perdoux (active c. 1787), Orléans; woodcut and letterpress on paper, hand-coloured in bodycolour with the pochoir. Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust).
This is a traditional Jeu de l’Oie (Game of the goose). Unlike the many variations, this example is very close to what we believe to be the game's original format. The earliest known ‘jeu de l’oie’ on paper dates from 1597 to 1601 published in Lyon and is currently in Germany. Even though this one is almost 200 years later it is very similar in iconography and bears the same title. The classic nature of the game was created by this stability in design and reinforced by the claim that it originated from the Greeks. The association with antiquity was not wholly believed at the time but it was used to elevate the game and, by implication, glorified France as the nation that revived it in modern times.
(Jacobs Rachel)

Exhibitions
- "Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from 18th-Century France". Catalogue exhibition of French eighteenth-century Board Games, 28 March – 28 October 2012, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust). Rachel Jacobs, Curator.

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  "Tradition and Variation in the Game of Goose" (A. Seville)
   
 
   
  Accession N°2669.2.12 Waddesdon-The Rothschild Collection
 

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